A Chinese woman in the country illegally led a years-long scam that cost a victim $600,000 and millions in identity theft, according to charges against her.
Wei Song, 59, and her boyfriend, 52-year-old Botao Liu, are accused of theft by deception in the alleged scam that promised “investment opportunities” and building up the victim’s credit, according to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by BreakingAC.
Both moved frequently, but were last known to be living in Egg Harbor Township, police said.
Min Wang invited the woman from Jilin, China, to stay with her family in Galloway Township after they became friends in 2014.
Over the next four years, Wang gave the woman she knew as Coco Li a total of $600,000 for “investment opportunities.”
But what the victim didn’t know was that Li was really Song, who had been in the country years after her temporary visa expired in 2010.
A year-long investigation by Galloway Township police led to the arrests of Song and Liu by the Bensalem Township Police Department. The two are in the process of being transferred from the Bucks County Correctional Facility to the Atlantic County jail, according to jail records.
After befriending Wang, Song “began to weave a detailed social engineering scheme that detailed her as wealthy and successful with numerous businesses in her name,” the detective wrote in the affidavit.
She would “provide various excuses and reasons why Min couldn’t receive…
